ThestoryofaneyewitnessPPT课件

1、1.To enjoy a nice essay (短文)written by Jack London.2.To learn important language points.第1页/共11页Jack London(1876-1916), the most successful writer in America in the early 20th Century. the famous author of “The Call of the Wild”(野性的呼唤)and many other well known books. He never went to high school unt

2、il he was nineteen years old and he died when he was forty. Yet he left behind him fifty-one books and many short stories.第2页/共11页words and phrases: organize v. 组织 eyewitness n. 目击者, 见证人 palace n. 宫殿; 豪宅 kilometer n. 公里; 千米 direction n. 方向 amazing a. 令人惊诧的 crowd n. c 人群 terrible a. 可怕的, 骇人的 address

3、n. 地址第3页/共11页 sth is gone 某物不存在了 far from 远离 the centre of the city 市中心 steel railway tracks 钢铁路轨 the way to do 作某事的方式 come up(太阳) 升起; 破土而出;发生, 出现 make ruins 毁坏 be a danger to sb/sth 对 构成威胁 a list of 一系列; 一张的名单 for safety 以保证安全第4页/共11页Scan the text and answer the questions belowWrite an adjective(ad

4、j.) to describe how the author felt about the earthquake._Write an adjective to describe how the author felt about the people during the earthquake._shockedsad/calm第5页/共11页Find the repetition（重复) of a word to describe the result of the earthquake.The repetition of the word is gone1. San Francisco is

5、 gone.2. Its businesses are gone.3. The factories, hotels and palaces are gone too. 4. All of the ways man had made to keep the city safe were gone in the 30 seconds the city moved.第6页/共11页Find out the parallel construction (排比句) in Para 2 . A list of buildings undestroyed was now only a few address

6、es. A list of the brave men and woman would fill a library. A list of all those killed will never be made.那些未被地震摧毁的建筑，现在只剩下一些地址名称而已。幸存下来的人们一个图书馆就能装下，死者已逝。第7页/共11页人们不得不毁掉那些地震中人们不得不毁掉那些地震中“幸存幸存”下来的建筑为了下来的建筑为了以以确保街道中其他人的安全确保街道中其他人的安全。Man himself had to make ruins of some of the citys best buildings so

7、that they would not be a danger to those in the streets.All of the ways man had made to keep the city safe were gone in the 30 seconds the city moved.所有人造的保证城市安全的各种系统在地球移动所有人造的保证城市安全的各种系统在地球移动的的3030秒钟内全部崩溃了。秒钟内全部崩溃了。第8页/共11页历史上从来没有一个城市被这般完全摧毁过。Never before in history has a city been so completely destroyed.Never in all San Franciscos history were her people so kind as on that terrible night.在旧金山的历史上，人们从来没有像那个可怕的夜晚那样善良过